mhoye
Gotta be honest, the number of you who are ascribing some sort of agency to these language models is pretty depressing, it's like breaking up a fight between a person and the chair they stuck googly-eyes on because the chair is winning.
Feb 9, 2023 at 8:20pmWeb
Show threadjr conlin β€”γ€°β€”Feb 9, 2023

@mhoye

To be honest, there's precedent.

Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Feb 9, 2023
@mhoye it's part of the hype cycle I suppose.. The problem is that it's cheap and there are a lot of willfully ignorant people who will happily use them because they are cheap regardless of any risks.
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Feb 9, 2023
@mhoye it's like if it cost a few dollars to make your car "self driving"
Show threadEli the BeardedFeb 9, 2023
@mhoye Why is Clint Eastwood fighting a chair again?
Show threadJason Petersen (he)Feb 10, 2023
@mhoye this was almost exactly the plot to the 2012 GOP convention starring Clint Eastwood
Show threadmeejahFeb 10, 2023
@mhoye Don't you dare insult my chair like that!
Show threadAngela Glansbury 🚽Feb 10, 2023
@mhoye
I'm not 100% certain the people who think they're less smart than a chair aren't less smart than a chair.
Show threadDuncan BabbageFeb 10, 2023
@mhoye my money is on the chair in a staring contest.
Show threaddanmcquillanFeb 10, 2023
@mhoye it might turn out to be the Electric Chair
Show threadClaudius LinkFeb 10, 2023
@mhoye
This is not new.
https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/site/1575860538.shtml
The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places

Authors: Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass, Series: More CSLI Publications Titles, Price: $27.00 paperback, $35.00 cloth, $20.00 Electronic, Length: 320 pages

Show threadDavid SenkFeb 10, 2023
@mhoye the world does need its telephone sanitizers after all…
Show threadAndy WoottonFeb 10, 2023
@mhoye Have you ever seen cat posts on the Internet?
Show threadMs AB β˜•Feb 10, 2023
@mhoye I love this, partly because reading it the first time I had a perfect vision of a chair with googly-eyes and now cannot shift it. πŸ˜‚ πŸͺ‘
Show threadRev. GothAliceFeb 10, 2023

@mhoye I guess I'm… spoiled? by having experienced the first wave of Elisa bots. Pure heuristic derivation from very basic natural language processing.

Somewhat reduces the… shininess of this latest wave.

I'm sorry Google engineer, it isn't people yet.

Show threadmhoyeFeb 10, 2023
@alice "I'm not sure I understand you fully."
Show threadRev. GothAliceFeb 10, 2023

@mhoye β€œHow does that make you feel?”

πŸ˜‚

Show threadTai ViinikkaFeb 10, 2023
@alice @mhoye Earlier you said you were spoiled. Was it your mother who spoiled?
Show threadRev. GothAliceFeb 10, 2023
@eastpole @mhoye I spoiled myself. Was writing them in Pascal with text-to-speech output via SoundBlaster 16 in the early 90’s. πŸ€ͺ
Show threadBill SeitzFeb 10, 2023
@mhoye getting Clint Eastwood flashback
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/04/clint-eastwood-explains-and-regrets-his-speech-to-an-empty-chair/
Clint Eastwood explains β€” and regrets β€” his speech to an empty chair

Β« I'd have to go for Trump, Β» Eastwood tells Esquire.

The Washington Post